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YMCA Announces Free Teen Summer Memberships

YMCA of the Foothills announces that Summer 2016 will be fun and free for teens age twelve to seventeen. Beginning June 1 through July 31, teens can join the Y for a free summer membership. The Y cares deeply about providing a place for teens to have fun in a positive environment. Read more.

YMCA Fiesta Days Run

The YMCA of the Foothills hosted the 41st Annual Y Fiesta Days Run on Memorial Day at Descanso Gardens. Hundreds of families, runners and walkers of all ages participated to support the Y's healthy aging initiative, Balance and Thrive. Read more.

Chairman's Round-table Society Dinner

Longtime La Cañada residents Kirk and Marjory Dawson were honored Thursday night with a Pacesetter Award by the YMCA of the Foothills for their years of dedicated service to the local organization. The presentation will took place during the Y's Chairman’s Round Table Society Dinner at Oakmont Country Club. Read more.

YMCA Prayer Breakfast

The YMCA of the Foothills hosted its Annual YMCA Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, November 5th, at the Crescenta-Cañada Family YMCA. The YMCA Prayer Breakfast is a major community event, bringing more than 400 local community leaders, churches and residents together for an inspirational morning of praise and fellowship. This Prayer Breakfast raises over $30,000 for spiritual awareness in the Foothills community.Read more.

Healthy Halloween

Many families joined us for Healthy Halloween week at the Y, supporting our Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative. Healthy Halloween is a week's worth of fun with the family.

Healthy Halloween at the Y does more than send candy to troops, all money raised through pumpkin sales and sponsors goes to reversing the childhood obesity rate that has doubled in the past three decades through our 31-week program called PLAY. Read more.

YMCA Program Helps Homeowners Harvest Fruit Trees

La Cañada High School student Alan Kim hands fruit to fellow YMCA volunteer Monte Davityan, as they harvest fruit at a La Cañada Flintridge home. A program run through the YMCA's Social Responsibility department lets homeowners with fruit trees keep a portion of the picked fruit, while the rest is donated to area programs and food pantries. Read more.

YMCA Tree Lot Helps Kids

The YMCA of the Foothills Christmas Tree Lot completed its third year and operated as a social enterprise by the Y’s high school Youth in Business Club. This group of seventy-five high school students in partnership with the two hundred and ninety high school Youth and Government delegates are dedicated to learning the skills of running a business and raise $50,000 to make sure that access to valuable YMCA- youth development programs that are designed to raise “Thriving Kids”. Read more.

﻿YMCA of the Foothills Opens The Crescenta Valley Family YMCA

The YMCA of the Foothills opened the Crescenta Valley Family YMCA on January 19, 2016 in La Crescenta. The Y is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization committed to transforming lives. Everything the Y does is in service to making us - as individuals and a community - better.

With the opening of this third facility, we will be able to continue to impact our community well into the future. Read more.

YMCA OF THE FOOTHILLS

OUR MISSION​The mission of the YMCA of the Foothills is to organize, develop, finance, and conduct programs for an association of persons of all ages that will, by putting Christian principles into practice, enrich the quality of their lives spiritually, mentally, physically and socially.